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Note: The following media release was picked up by The Border Mail’s Country Mail (published on 29.3.14), Prime7 television news (screened 26.3.14) and ABC Goulburn Murray local news (aired 17.3.14). Summer is officially over but local horticulturalists are still reeling from the consequences of January and February heatwaves. Citrus, avocado, apple and fig crops were…

Community environment groups across the region are celebrating the news that Energetica Resources Pty Ltd has withdrawn its application for a coal seam gas (CSG) licence in south western NSW (i.e. the region to the north and north west of Corowa). “We are very pleased to hear that Energetica has withdrawn their application,” said Delwyn…

Wodonga and Albury Toward Climate Health support the campaign to shut down Hazelwood power station. WATCH committee member Lizette Salmon had this to say about the matter in a letter published in the Border Mail (30th May 2012)… Hazelwood power station isn’t exactly around the corner from the beautiful Border region, but that’s no reason to…

WATCH member David MacIlwain had the following letter published in the Border Mail, 26th July 2011… “When Julia Gillard declared six days before the last election that “there will be no carbon tax” our hearts sank. This had been the last chance for urgently needed action to reduce Australia’s carbon emissions. For years under Howard…

WATCH committee member David Macilwain had a letter to the editor entitled ‘No justification for it‘ published in The Age (28 June 2011), responding to the disappointing opinion piece ‘An Inconvenient Fallacy’ by Prof. Bob Carter in the same publication (27 June 2011).